This article contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones series finale.
eighth and final season may not be everyone’s favorite, but if there’s one thing fans enjoyed the most, it’s the wealth of memes it produced: from the creepy stare of Bran The Broken—who now sits on the non-Iron Throne of the Six Kingdoms, by the way—to a horny Tormund, the “safety” provided by the Winterfell crypts, and Daenerys ignoring the bells in the penultimate episode.
So if anything else was expected of the final episode Sunday night—besides Dany getting killed—it was another round of great memes. At least in that regard, the finale did not disappoint. Game of Thrones left us with one scene that was made to be memed: Ser Brienne of Tarth, now Lord Commander of Bran’s Kingsguard, writing Jaime Lannister’s entry in the Book of Brothers.
This is actually a callback to an unforgettable moment between the two in a season 4 episode, in which Jaime tells Brienne that it’s the “duty of the Lord Commander” to record the deeds of everyone who served in the Kingsguard in the Book of Brothers, also known as the White Book.
Thus, Brienne did her duty, even managing to put a positive spin on Jaime’s decision to leave her to go back to Cersei, writing in conclusion to Jaime’s entry, “Died protecting his Queen.”
Instead of celebrating how Brienne ended the series as the highest ranking officer of the Knights of the Kingsguard, viewers couldn’t handle her writing about Jaime’s heroic deeds, especially that last line. They reacted with memes, of course.
Some fans were emotional about Brienne remembering only Jaime’s good deeds.
https://twitter.com/und0milk/status/1130304382862614530
Watching Brienne finish Jaime’s story with nothing but love and honor after the way he treated her really fucked me up. #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/2GFpSzSssa
— Kels. (@KelseyStauffer) May 20, 2019
Some think it’s the “same energy” as an ex-girlfriend only having good things to say:
This is the same energy to me pic.twitter.com/8giVxP2zdF
— Ella Torres (@Ella_RTorres) May 20, 2019
Overall, people were disappointed that Brienne took the high road after what Jaime did to her.
https://twitter.com/Miss_Talie/status/1130294999625736193
Thought they were letting Brienne *literally* write her own story of becoming a knight, but nope. She glorifies..Jamie. #GOT pic.twitter.com/RBlk98qeWE
— Paperbag Princiss (@paperbagprnsiss) May 20, 2019
Twitter had a lot of suggestions for what Brienne should have written instead.
For starters, why couldn’t she have mentioned that Jaime was actually the one who knighted her?
https://twitter.com/Nerdista/status/1130303822138466305
Some kept it short and sweet:
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 20, 2019
While others think Brienne should have deemed Jaime a “fuccboi”:
“Jaime Lannister: died…a fuccboi.”#GameofThronesFinale #GamesOfThrones pic.twitter.com/kpffZ9LxkG
— Jenny Yang (@jennyyangtv) May 20, 2019
#GameofThronesSpoilers pic.twitter.com/gegjzNzPNM
— Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko) May 20, 2019
Some think Brienne was writing in the Mean Girls’ Burn Book:
Yeah, I thought Brienne was writing in this thing. pic.twitter.com/Vj22gMs04L
— Alex Serrato (@maniosointexas) May 20, 2019
Maybe Brienne should have written that Jaime “had a good bepis,” which @vqnerdballs thinks is “how he’d want to be remembered.”
it’s how he’d want to be remembered #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/PZY58Sjmoy
— Victoria McNally (@vqnerdballs) May 20, 2019
Fans also had theories about what Brienne was really writing or wanted to write, like “Brienne was so good in bed that he went crazy and went to die with his sister. Yeah, that’s what happened,” @_Zeets tweeted.
“Brienne was so good in bed that he went crazy and went to die with his sister. Yeah. that’s what happened.” pic.twitter.com/WvKRUItxgv
— Zito (@_Zeets) May 20, 2019
“And also Ser Jaime died while telling Cersei that he was in love with Brienne who was super hot the end” pic.twitter.com/9yr5i3lvHK
— Dylan Goforth (@DGoforth918) May 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/bimadew/status/1130312301544955905
Or maybe she’s doodling Ser Jaime’s name—with a heart on the “i.”
— Jules (@Julian_Epp) May 20, 2019
Some think she was really saying nasty things about Cersei (in a “deleted scene”):
We all know what Brienne put at the back of the Book of Brothers #GameOfThronesFinale #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/6jfU8LGoi4
— Fuzzy Barbarian (@FuzzyBarbarian) May 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/seyaam_/status/1130299346153562112
Basically anything else but what she wrote:
— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) May 20, 2019
What Brienne was really writing #GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesFinale pic.twitter.com/Lrq5AdEidL
— cory (@coryiams) May 20, 2019
Brienne writing about her ex-lover’s good deeds has also become a mood. As @nadiamy tweeted, “Brienne is all of us single ladies who are making it fine in our career but got screwed in our relationship #wegotthepen.”
https://twitter.com/nadiamy/status/1130327069244608513
https://twitter.com/Quotemeorelse/status/1130328817103278080
https://twitter.com/arayyay/status/1130295190927937536
I guess it makes sense that, after choosing Bran The Broken to be the new king just for knowing all the stories, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard would now be into “blogging” or “scrapbooking.”
https://twitter.com/JasMoneyRecords/status/1130300202978562053
ser brienne of tarth writin’ history without an editor or fact checker in workout clothes she is a blogger i dig it pic.twitter.com/mEEQYvuY0Y
— ryan sutton (@qualityrye) May 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/aaronmedwards/status/1130304507944947713
Game of Thrones is the epic story of the creation of Jaime Lannister’s Wikipedia entry
— ‘Weird Alex’ Pareene (@pareene) May 20, 2019
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